Solicitor General for Scotland
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Her Majesty's Solicitor General for Scotland (Àrd-neach-lagha a' Chrùin an Alba) is one of the Law Officers of the Crown, and the deputy of the Lord Advocate, whose duty is to advise the Crown and the Scottish Executive on Scots Law. They are also responsible for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service which together constitute the criminal prosection Service in Scotland.
Until 1999, when the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Executive were created, the Lord Advocate and the Solicitor General for Scotland advised the United Kingdom Government. Since their transfer to the Scottish Executive, the United Kingdom Government has been advised on Scots Law by the Advocate General for Scotland.
List of Solicitors General for Scotland
- 1717-1720: Robert Dundas
- 1742-1746: Robert Dundas
- 1759-1760: Thomas Miller
- 1784: Robert Dundas
- incomplete before 1775
- 1775: Alexander Murray
- 1783: Ilay Campbell
- 1789: Robert Blair
- 1806: John Clerk
- 1807: David Boyle
- 1811: David Monypenny
- 1813: Alexander Maconochie
- 1810: James Wedderburn
- 1825: John Hope
- 1830: Henry Cockburn
- 1834: Andrew Skene
- 1834: Duncan McNeill
- 1835: John Cunninghame
- 1837: Andrew Rutherfurd
- 1839: James Ivory
- 1840: Thomas Maitland
- 1841: Duncan McNeill
- 1842: Adam Anderson
- 1846: Thomas Maitland
- 1850: James Moncreiff
- 1851: John Cowan
- 1851: George Deas
- 1852: John Inglis
- 1852: Charles Neaves
- 1853: Robert Handyside
- 1853: James Craufurd
- 1855: Thomas Mackenzie
- 1855: Edward Francis Maitland
- 1858: Charles Baillie
- 1858: David Mure
- 1859: George Patton
- 1859: Edward Francis Maitland
- 1862: George Young
- 1866: Edward Strathearn Gordon
- 1867: John Millar
- 1868: George Young
- 1869: Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark
- 1874: John Millar
- 1874: William Watson
- 1876: John Hay Athole Macdonald
- 1880: John Blair Balfour
- 1881: Alexander Asher
- 1885: James Patrick Bannerman Robertson
- 1886: Alexander Asher
- 1886: James Patrick Bannerman Robertson
- 1888: Moir Tod Stormonth Darling
- 1890: Sir Charles Pearson
- 1891: Andrew Graham Murray
- 1892: Alexander Asher
- 1894: T. Shaw
- 1895: Andrew Graham Murray
- 1896: C.S. Dickson
- 1903: D. Dundas
- 1905: E. Salvesen
- 1905: J. Clyde
- 1905: Alexander Ure
- 1909: A. Dewar
- 1910: W. Hunter
- 1911: A. Anderson
- 1913: Thomas Morison
- 1920: C. Murray
- 1922: Andrew Constable
- 1922: William Watson
- 1922: D. Fleming
- 1923: Frederick Charles Thomson
- 1924: John Charles Fenton
- 1924: David Pinkerton Fleming
- 1926: Alexander Munro MacRobert
- 1929: Wilfrid Guild Normand
- 1929: John Charles Watson
- 1931: Wilfrid Guild Normand
- 1933: Douglas Jamieson
- 1935: Thomas Mackay Cooper
- 1935: Albert Russell
- 1936: James Scott Cumberland Reid
- 1941: Sir David King Murray
- 1945: Daniel Patterson Blades
- 1947: John Wheatley
- 1947: Douglas Harold Johnston
- 1951: William Rankine Milligan
- 1955: William Grant
- 1960: David Colvill Anderson
- 1964: Norman Wylie (April to October)
- 1964: James Graham Leechman
- 1965: Henry Stephen Wilson
- 1967: Ewan George Francis Stewart
- 1970: David William Robert Brand
- 1972: William Ian Stewart
- 1974: John H. McCluskey
- 1979: Nicholas Fairbairn
- 1982: Peter Fraser, Lord Fraser of Carmyllie
- 1989: Alan Rodger
- 1992: Thomas Dawson
- 1995: Donald Mackay, Lord Mackay of Drumadoon
- 1995: Paul Cullen
- 1997: Colin Boyd
- 2000: Neil Davidson
- 2001: Elish Angiolini
The above list is taken from Haydn's Book of Dignities, 12th edition (1894, reprinted 1969) and from Oxford Companion to Law, Clarendon Press, 1980
